The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-08
| AYOUTH'S RECKLESSFOLLY
FROM A POsIrION OF TRUST TO
A CRIMINALS CELL
Within Less Than a Wsek-Arriyal
OF Charles Talbot on Sunday
Morning.

There is a temporary lull in the ex-
element attending the great diamond
robbery, which stirred Memphis and
the entire country last week, and
called into play the keenest detective
talent at the disposal OF Allan Pinker-
ton and the Memphis police force.
Charles Talbot, the principal. is be-
hind the bars at the County Jail, and
Miss Fanny Davenport, who sustain ed
the loss, has reg lined her jewels and
gone TO rejoin ner company at New
Orleans.
THE CURIOUS CROWDS.
The knowledge that the youthful
aud daring thief would arrive at $40
o'clock am. Sunday, in charge Of De-
tectjve ]. @. McGinn and Capt. Geo.
T. O'Haver, who effected his arrest at
Kansas City, sttracted an enormous
crowd to the Mississippi and Tennes-
see depot, which is also used by the
Kansas City road, aud as Talbot and
his captors alighted from the train
every eye in the assemblage was cer,-
tered upon the party. Sergt, Hedrick
and Chief Davis met the trio at Broad
way street, and with them entered a
hack and drove t. the Glycso Hotel.
There another crowd had collected
and young Talbot underwent the
SINE close scrutiny that marked his
arrival at the depot.
SAYS HE WAS DhUNK.
The party was taken in charge al
the Gayoso by one of the proprietors
who remarked 10 Talbot that he was
sorrow for his tail from the paths o
virtue and honesty. II was drunk,
answered Talbot, firmly, "or l would
never have done it." The party were
then escor ed to breakfast in the hote
dining room, and all ate atily save
the rrisoner, whose appetite had flee
under the real zation of his unenvia
bic predicament. After breakfast ht
was again put into the carriage, and
acc mpanied by his brother, in-law
Mr.. ]. ]. Gibbon, and Sergt. Bedrick
was driven to the Station House
Here another crowd was assembled
but as soon as the prisoner was brough
in the room was cleared and he wal
searched. A photograph, watcf
and chain and letter or two were al
that was found on him. The charg,
of grand larceny was entered agains
his name on the docket and he wa
rut back into the "cage," whence h,
was removed later to the County Jail
His manner throughout the ordeal wa
ca muess it, elf, but his eyes looked a
if the tears were ready to start.
THE PRISONER INTERVIEWED.
Talbot was visited at the jail Sun
day afternoon by an APPEAL reporter
and answered the questions propou I'd
ed in a firm tone and Hnhetitatin
manner; but his eyes were red an,
betokened an emotion ready to breal
forth in a food of tears at the leas
provecation. 81 had been drinkin
the evening of the robbery,
he said, land YVES smartln
under an inability to comply with tn
demands of Jennie Gill for none
with which to take trip to st. Loui
; The box containing the jewels ha
been consigned to my care by M
Price about IL o'clock that night, afte
the performance at the theater, an
after every one had left the rotunda
first conceived the idea of making wa
with it. 1 thought it contained tn
each receipts from the Performance,
and had no idea Of it being diamond
About / o'clock, just after the wstcl
man had passed through the ro'ur q
on his rounds, l took the case, force
open the lid and saw the contents. Fl
,, moment l hesitsted, then decided,
J it was not money, to return the casa
the vault and go no further in Grim
When l tried to close it, however,
found it impossible, IS the lock WI
broken, and removed the jswel
placsd them in cigar box and sci
them to my room b. a bell boy.
FLIGHT To WHIST MEMPHIS.
8 "When the day clerk came on watc
b at $3.50 o'clock that morning / wei